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enDrupalCon Denver highlights - Day 3http://stidwill.com/content/drupalcon-denver-highlights-day-3
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<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/luke-wroblewski">http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/luke-wroblewski</a></p>
<p>Day 3 began with a very dynamic speech by Luke Wroblewski. He made the point very clearly, just how important development for mobiles is. Although I didn't attend the (not directly related) session that followed on mobile theming ("Creating Responsive and Mobile-First Drupal Themes"), it is probably is worth checking out:</p>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/creating-responsive-and-mobile-first-drupal-themes">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/creating-responsive-and-mo...</a></p>
<h2>Views for Developers; An Architectural Overview</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/views-developers-architectural-overview">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/views-developers-architect...</a></p>
<p>For me, this was probably the best presented sesssion of the conference. It didn't do a deep dive into how to do things in Views, but indicated what could be done with Views, and how to extend it in code. A copy of the slides can be found at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/views3-for-devs">http://tinyurl.com/views3-for-devs</a>.</p>
<h2>How to build a scalable platform for today’s publishers</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/how-build-scalable-platform-todays-publishers">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/how-build-scalable-platfor...</a></p>
<p>This session didn't really go into the depth that is needed to get full value out of the topics covered. However, it's probably still worth a look for an explanation of how one site makes use of:</p>
<ul><li>the Deploy module</li>
<li>Entity List</li>
<li>Cache tags</li>
</ul><p>and how these help create a site that can perform well when the number of hits expected is high.</p>
<h2>Delivering Drupal</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/delivering-drupal">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/delivering-drupal</a></p>
<p>An excellent session, although more from a project manager rather than developer point of view, on how to manage a Drupal project successfully. Based on experience at <a href="http://www.examiner.com">http://www.examiner.com</a>, the presenters demonstrated the pros and cons of Waterfall and Agile methodologies, and showed how they developed a methodology appropriate for Drupal 7 sites.</p>
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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:15:28 +0000guybrush18 at http://stidwill.comhttp://stidwill.com/content/drupalcon-denver-highlights-day-3#commentsDrupalCon Denver highlights - Day 2http://stidwill.com/content/drupalcon-denver-highlights-day-2
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Selected highlights from Day 2 include:</p>
<h2>Drupal Commerce: eCommerce Any Way You Need It</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-commerce-ecommerce-any-way-you-need-it">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-commerce-ecommerce-...</a></p>
<p>Key points from this talk were:</p>
<ul><li>A recent $5 million investment will allow faster movement on Drupal Commerce over the coming months (e.g. by employing extra resources for development and documentation) - the focus will be on making a better experience for store administrators (rather than just developers)</li>
<li>A new Commerce Kickstart feature will be ready soon - providing a more polished entry for new users</li>
</ul><h2>Drupal 8 Meets Symfony2</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-8-meets-symfony2">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-8-meets-symfony2</a></p>
<p>Slides available at: <a href="http://speakerdeck.com/u/fabpot/p/symfony2-meets-drupal-8">http://speakerdeck.com/u/fabpot/p/symfony2-meets-drupal-8</a></p>
<p>Given the announcement by Dries that Symfony2 will form a key part of Drupal 8, this was a very well attended and important session. Fabien Potencier, the founder of Symfony, gave the presentation. This included a detailed overview of how Symfony2 works, with a focus on the aspects of relevance to Drupal. This was definitely not the easiest session to follow, due to the new concepts and detailed technical discussion. However, it is an important first step in an understand of the future underlying code of Drupal 8.</p>
<h2>Drupal Commerce Contrib Overview</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-commerce-contrib-overview">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-commerce-contrib-ov...</a></p>
<p>A rapid run through many of the key contributed add-on modules to Drupal Commerce. Definitely worth watching if you're using Drupal Commerce at all.</p>
<h2>Drupalize Your Data: Use Entities!</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupalize-your-data-use-entities">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupalize-your-data-use-en...</a></p>
<p>This didn't really add anything to the DrupalCon London talk last summer. There was some talk of remote entities, NoSQL, etc., but this wasn't detailed enough to provide practical examples of how to do this.</p>
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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:14:05 +0000guybrush17 at http://stidwill.comhttp://stidwill.com/content/drupalcon-denver-highlights-day-2#commentsDrupalCon Denver highlights - Day 1http://stidwill.com/content/drupalcon-denver-highlights-day-1
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>This is the feedback on Day 1 of the sessions I attended at DrupalCon Denver this year...with links to the video presentations:</p>
<h2>Dries' keynote speech</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/dries-buytaert">http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/dries-buytaert</a></p>
<p>Of course, this is definitely worth watching. Major announcements are:</p>
<ul><li>Integration with Symfony 2 - looks like there will be more use of Symfony than first imagined in Drupal 8</li>
<li>Mobile experience - for Drupal 8, there will be a much greater emphasis on building a great mobile experience</li>
<li>Content authoring - improvements need to be considered regarding inline-editing, mobile and localisation</li>
<li>Drupal 8 release - Feature freeze: December 1st; Code Freeze: February 1st; Proposed release date: August 2013 (DrupalCon Europe)</li>
</ul><h2>The Ultimate Drupal Developer Experience - Power Tools for Power Users</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/content/ultimate-drupal-developer-experience-power-tools-power-users">http://denver2012.drupal.org/content/ultimate-drupal-developer-experienc...</a></p>
<p>In one sense, this was a sales pitch for Acquia resources and services. Probably the most significant announcement, though, was that Dev Cloud will be permanently free for developers from April</p>
<p>The demo of how simple releases can be with their tools was quite exciting though - releasing code, databases or files between dev/stage/production is a simple case of drag and drop!</p>
<p>Acquia Network...and particular Acquia Insight is a paid-for service (e.g. $2500 a year), but offers some good site management tools such as code review, performance monitoring, and easy drag-and-drop deployment of code, databases and files.</p>
<h2>OG7 - Pride and Prejudice</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/og7-pride-and-prejudice">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/og7-pride-and-prejudice</a></p>
<p>Amitaibu was his usual humorous self! This was one of the most revealing and useful sessions of the conference. There are a number of major changes in the new version of Organic Groups (note, though, that it's not production-ready yet). These include:</p>
<ul><li>More fine control over permissions (e.g. per node type), including, for the first time, restriction of Create permissions per group</li>
<li>Use of the Entity Reference module, and the ability to have more than one group audience field</li>
<li>Restriction of the groups (by entity bundle) that can be associated with an entity - this nice feature avoids the need for long list of groups, if the groups are divided into different group content types, for example)</li>
</ul><h2>Services Inside and Out</h2>
<p><a href="http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/services-inside-and-out">http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/services-inside-and-out</a></p>
<p>I probably wouldn't recommend watching this session if you want to gain an understanding of Services. Just stick to the online documentation on the Services module (even though that is not as complete as it could be).</p>
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